Almost 2yr rainy day activity

[lancslass17]

Hi,

I know this has been asked, Please hit me with your best indoor activity for not quite 2 year old i am out of ideas and the tv has been on too much!

Following with interest as I am feeling exactly the same!!! Anything I set up like colouring etc he does for literally two minutes

My son loves 'play sand'. 4 cups of plain flour mixed with half a cup of any oil (I use rapeseed oil). Mix and enjoy! It holds its shape so u can build sandcastles.

I need ideas too. Or the sun to come back.

The only thing my DD does longer than 2 minutes is copy me clean. Really boring obviously but a wet sponge and a few "helping mummy" comments entertains her for a while. Or a bath with bubbles, bath crayons etc can kill an hour.

Pouring & scooping has always been a hit so some pasta, rice or lentils and different spoons, containers, little trucks. Water beads has been a huge hit over lockdown too.

Mine loves puzzles, obviously he needs help but he loves fitting the pieces in.

And duplo, and other small world toys like happyland, and pushing the cars down the ramps in the garage.

Family lockdown tips and ideas on FB is great for this. I've used loads of ideas from there.

A 2 year old version of a treasure chest goes down well.

Find a box or bag and fill it with a range of smaller containers that all have something interesting in. You can put container in container in container if they're a child that likes opening things. Use different containers with different fastenings (lid, zip, button, velcro etc).

You can hide small toys (favourites or a small new toy or one they haven't seen for a while), bubbles, a book, a snack, household objects that might be novel to look at (torch, calculator, something that smells nice like bar of soap or drawer freshener thing, notepad and pen, old phone, coins, keys/keyrings, bubble wrap/tin foil/crepe paper). Anything that you think will hold their interest for a few minutes.

You split toys into different hiding places as well so you could e.g. teddy's hat and then you have to look through and find teddy! Or hide puzzle pieces. Of cut a picture in half and they can assemble it when they find both pieces.

Novelty is a big draw at that age as well so playing with toys in different places can be a winner. Duplo/tea set in the bath. Dinosaurs in the garden in puddles/mud.

Or playing with toys that don't normally go together.

Or adding new stuff in (cardboard tube in the cars box, real coins in the 'shop' etc)

Or pack away some toys/books for a month or so and then get them out again.

I did a really silly thing that my dd enjoyed and found really funny but might seem daft.

Get an unused handbag or suitcase and fill it with random safe bits. Say it’s “aunty Claire’s handbag she must have left it” she says it’s ok for us to go through and check what’s in it!

Dd found it hilarious but she does have a niche sense of humour.

Also took photos of her favourite teddy hidden around the house and pretended he was sending picture messages of where he was hiding. We ran to the place to find he wasn’t there until eventually he was.

Maybe I’m just losing the plot